1 . One day a famous painter painted a picture. He put it on exhibition with the title “Not for_______”. However, it was so beautiful a painting that whoever_______that exhibition asked the painter to sell that painting for whatever amount he would_______it. But he said, “I'm extremely sorry but I can’t sell this for any amount. I will sell it to only that person who will understand its_______.” Then, an old man came over and said, “I want to buy this painting and here is the_______in this small box for it.” There was a paint brush and colors in it. Then, he gave that painting to the old man.

All the other people asked the painter with_______, “Why did you sell it for a paint brush and a few colors to this old man? We were_______you a huge amount for this painting.” The painter said, “If you_______the painting, there is a man who is teaching a kid to paint with so much_______. So, the man in the picture is this old man and that kid is me. He is my teacher who taught me to paint and made me become what I am today just thanks to his devotion and________. And, the real value of this painting is just a paint brush which is________by my teacher as this paint brush is more________than your wealth. With this paint brush I can paint many more paintings.”All people understood and________the bonding(情谊) of a teacher and his student.

A teacher always gives his best wealth to his student in the form of knowledge, wisdom and art with a(n)________that his student will________make use of it.

4 . Lewis B. Smedes once said, “To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.” For years Tom Anderson’s life was withered up (枯萎) by the memory of his _______ in an adventure that _______ the death of one of his classmates. He and his wife _______ after six years of marriage. Then the news about Tom _______. His wife Betty came back; he _______ a fine position.

One day he told me what had changed his life, “I used to think nothing could _______ the effect of what I had done. The thought of my _______ would stop me in the middle of a smile. It put a _______ between my wife and me. Then I had an _______ visit from the person I dreaded (恐惧) most to see — the mother of the college ________ who died.

‘Unless you ________, you cannot love.’ She said, “And without love, life has no ________.” She paused, and then said ________, “You are the one person ________ hasn’t forgiven Tom Anderson.” I found there in her eyes ________ to be the person I might have been if her boy had lived. For the first time in my life I felt myself ________ to love and be loved.”

Forgiveness is truly the ________ grace (慈悲), through which we ________   the freedom to learn from experience. But forgiving our shortcomings doesn’t mean ________ that they exist. On the contrary, it means facing them ________.